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Innovative Learning - Free Newsletter Fall 2009
This phenomenal special interest group of ISTE has a great quarterly newsletter which is really the best of innovative learning in all of education. On pages 15-17 there are three pages of an article from two of my students and I about teaching in a virtual world including my "quick tricks for teaching in a virtual world." Print this, share it, and learn - so many great things in this newsletter!
TeachingWithContests.com
This blog shares contests to use and share with your classroom.
TICAL - Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership
Will be speaking in Arkansas on February 17th at their TICAL conference. I'm so excited! This is information if you are in the area so that you may plan to attend. If you do, please plan to say "hi" - it really means a lot to meet the people from cyberworld, I guess it makes it all more "real."
NetSmartzKids: Tunes
Use Clicky's Raps to teach your kids Internet safety. Lisa Durff recommended this site on Twitter. Cool tool.
Social networks and kids: How young is too young? - CNN.com
Important article to read about children of all ages creating profiles. I believe this supports our driving need to incorporate instruction and discussion on this topic in schools.
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a growing number of children are flouting age requirements on sites such as Facebook and MySpace, or using social-networking sites designed just for them.
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which some therapists have linked to Internet addiction among adults
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Crowdsourcing or Loudsourcing? | ISTE Connects - Educational Technology
Blogged my thoughts on crowdsourcing the ISTE keynote this year.
Findings - Ethnographic Study Looks at Gossip in the Workplace - NYTimes.com
Office gossip (this study on an elementary school and their gossip against a principal) hurts EVERYONE including your school and in this case, test scores declined. Remember that when you gossip, you also hurt yourself and if you didn't already know this, take a read here about office gossip and how to intervene and stop it.
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once someone made a negative comment about a person who wasn’t there, the conversation would get meaner unless someone immediately defended the target.
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gossip in the workplace also tended to be overwhelmingly negative, but the insults were more subtle and the conversations less predictable, says Tim Hallett, a sociologist at Indiana University.
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flatclassroom09-3 - Workflow Software - Discussion - Teacher Feedback from Mrs. Davis
This is an example of how I used Diigo to create an annotated link to give feedback on a wiki on Flat Classroom. I love using Diigo for giving wiki feedback because I can mark up the page. I like ot share them through groups that are private with my students and I and the annotated link feature is one of the best ways to do this.
How I create and publish podcasts » Moving at the Speed of Creativity
If you want to know how one of the pro's makes and publishes podcasts, here is Wesley Fryer's how to - a must read for anyone working in this area of technology.
Pixton™ - Comic Strip Creator - Make Your Own Web Comics Online
Another Comic location. This is supposed to have animated comics also as part of this.
Comicbrush
New comic making web app which also has an i-pod compatible app. This lets you combine drawings, photos, and ready to use artwork to create caricatures. This is great. You can also mash up regular backgrounds with caricatures in the foreground.
TLC = Tech + Library + Classroom: Wordle and Books = Groovy Stuff!
Love how Tara in Bangkok, Thailand used Wordle to introduce books and then mashed up the words in voicethread. What a fascinatingly creative way to use these tools!
Flat Classroom Project Expands Its Reach
Write up on some flat classroom topics and what we're doing in my class this year.
Gearing up for Another Flat Classroom Project « Haas | Learning
Fred Haas' reflections are so very real when it comes to ambitious global collaborations. I had to laugh as he said about NetGenEd (last spring's project): "Without question it was a mildly harrowing but ultimately rewarding experience."
The learning curve is TREMENDOUS but once you have it under your belt it is similar to your first year of teaching or boot camp for someone in the military. If you're wondering if this sort of thing is for you, take a read of Fred's very real reflections.
Julie nor I NOR ANY global collaborator will ever say it is easy - if it is perhaps you're not having to be as engaged as perhaps you need to be. However, it is most rewarding!
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it was a mildly harrowing but ultimately rewarding experienc
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Yet, as Vicki Davis quipped at the beginning of the project, “The thing about working on the bleeding edge is sometimes you bleed.”
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Time in the Sandbox is needed « Learning Mosaic
Students do need time in the sandbox as this teacher from Madrid shares on her blog (how they introduced the math manipulatives in first grade.) My response:
"Sandboxing is ESSENTIAL. It is low threat, high exploration, high experimentation mode with whatever tool is at hand, and is part of my upcoming book ClickSmart as it relates to software. But as you’ve so eloquently put here, sandboxing is important to do with just about anything!"
1:1 in Practice at Sinarmas World Academy
This is a great blog that is choc full of what can (and should be done) and if you're not following http://www.twitter.com/janeinjava , you should. I just snagged this from Julie Lindsay and wow, I'm impressed with what they (and Jane) are doing.
Myebook - Movie Making for Kids
This ebook has over 10,000 views and it is about movie making for kids with just simple pictures.
Welcome to Zon! | Enter Zon
Massive multiplayer role playing game for learning Mandarin Chinese. Immersion is supposed to be the best way to learn and here it is!
E-Learning Journeys: Across My Desk (weekly)
My friend Julie Lindsay (now in China) is such a great friend and inspiration to me. I haven't said in some time how much I appreciate what she is doing and how much she shares. She writes a great blog that I wish more people would read.
Current State of Mobile Learning
Current State of Mobile Learning - this is a book that talks about mobile learning. (hat tip to Stephen Downes) - it is an important article for those designing learning to read (as well as my Flat Classroom students writing about mobile and ubiquitous computing.
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